350 A. Vaughan Jennings — Geology of Bad Nauheim. 



overwhelmed by their Germanic foes, left behind them, now deep in 

 the detritus at the foot of the Johannisberg, their hearths, chisels, 

 ■and millstones, mixed up with shells and bones. In addition to these 

 typical relics of the race, there have also been found special forms of 

 earthen vessels, used evidently for evaporating the waters of the 

 saline springs. The tribes described by Tacitus as being in 

 possession at the end of the first century do not seem to have been 

 similarly enterprising, but it is known the victorious Romans of 

 the third century resorted thither for medicinal baths. 



Fig. 1. — Bad Natjheim. View looking west. In the foreground the Grosser 

 Sprudel and Friedi-ich-Wilhelm's Quelle [Borings 7 and 12]. The Johannisberg 

 in the distance. 



The place was, in fact, a Eoman sanatorium sixteen centuries 

 before the modern Teuton evolved the ' Kur ' to music, or the 

 somewhat over-subtle phonendoscope whispered in the doctor's ear 

 of fell diseases that are at work below, and perhaps, occasionally, 

 of some that are not. In medieeval times and throughout the later 

 centuries its ancient reputation was sustained and increased. The 

 nineteenth has seen the opening of a system of baths in 1835, which 

 has so advanced in public estimation that the number of visitors has 

 risen in 60 years from 189 to 17,760, and of baths from some 

 112,000 in 1890 to over 227,000 in 1897. 



It is not, however, the object of this paper to give statistics or 

 to advertise a health resort. The above figures are quoted only to 

 indicate the growth of the place as a justification for giving some 

 account of its geological features in English. Several thousands of 

 the visitors annually are British, and I have found that there really 

 is a small percentage, even of these, who would be glad to know 

 something of the structure of the country which produces the 

 waters they seek to benefit by. 



